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On December 6th I attended the Small Talk Part II workshop offered by Star Career Development. Even though the workshop was short it was very helpful. This workshop is meant for people that need to learn social skills and excel in communications. I learned how to begin a conversation and ways to keep the conversation going. For example, if you’re attending a holiday party and a firm recruiter is at the event and you’re in need of a job, what should you do? For me I would have the host of the party introduce me to him. I would want to be introduced because I don’t want to go up to someone and feel like that I’m a needy person and coming on to hard. So if someone introduces me to the recruiter they will be able to say some positives about me and have the conversation start for me and then the recruiter and I will be able to begin our small talk about anything.
This program also had its negatives, the program as helpful as I thought because of the shortness and how bored I was in it. We only read about five pages of our fifteen page packet and they only had drawings or figures on it. When it time to have our questions answered I didn’t have any questions because I didn’t learn anything new. But I felt bad for the man that was offering the class because within five minutes of the seminar starting a group of people left, the class started with 25 and ended with about eleven people left in it.
In the beginning of the workshop, we introduced ourselves to the class and also went into small groups to have small chats among each other. We received a packet about different techniques we can use to start a conversation. In the packet it gave us fifty tips on what to do and not to do during a conversation. The proctor then told us about how body language can tell a lot about if you want to talk or not. For instance, if you cross your arms it says that you don’t want to be bothered or you’re in deep thought. This is very obvious, but people need to know that this will happen. Even if the person is willing to speak with people and showing this mood, nobody would want to approach them or speak to them.
If this seminar was to be offered again I don’t think I would attend, but I would attend a seminar on job searching or how to make my resume better than what it already is. The only thing that I would be able to take out of the seminar is that I have to begin a conversation and not to always depend on people to come to me and begin the conversation. For me being a shy person it is going to take some practice, but sooner or later it will be easier than thought it would be.

My name is Sheridan Taylor and I am a freshman here at Baruch. I am from Westchester County, New York. I attended my four years of high school at Peekskill High School. I played Softball, Volleyball and Basketball and helped to lead my girls’ basketball team to their first state championship. I am a very active person between school and sports. Besides sports I like to hang with friends and family, shopping and doing anything that catches my eye. I can say that I enjoyed my high school career, but looking forward for college to change my perspective.
The college life is the best thing ever. Who would ever want to pass up the opportunity to go away from home? I took this chance the first time that it was open to me. College is a lot of hard work, but it’s going to be worth the time in the long run. Partying is one the other great factors of going to school. These parties aren’t your average parties from high school, there are so much more to them. The college experience is so much better than my high school experience. I enjoyed high school, but I enjoy the fact that I’m going to a school in New York. Coming from a town with 23,000 people (believe me its smaller than expected) to a school with more than a million people is something that I never expected.
My fist year has already changed me and it barely started. I had to change my studying habits and my timeliness. In high school, I didn’t study as much as I should have and it sometimes showed in the work and the tests that I had to turn in. I had to make sure that I gave myself enough time to complete the homework assignments that are given to me. I learned to manage my time or I wouldn’t be able to make it through the week. I didn’t have much problem when it came to time management in high school because I played three varsity sports and was active in several clubs.
Basketball has put me in a stand still. I never met something, so demanding before like this before. I’ve always enjoyed the sport and will continue to play it through the four years of college. College basketball differs from high school that there’s weight training. I expected it, but didn’t think it would be as intense as it is. I don’t mind working out its just the amount of time that I have committed into working out and making sure that I was on top of my game has taken a slight toll on me.
I miss do have some things that I miss from home. The home cooked meals, the driving, my sisters and a small amount of friends that I had. The cooking food every night or ordering some fast food isn’t a healthy lifestyle that I should have. Like who wants to be part of the ‘freshman 15’ because I know that I don’t especially being an athlete. My sisters were my rocks. We had our arguments, but we had more laughs than that. They are some of the few people that keep me sane. Ugh, taking public transportation every day is the worst part of the commute to school. I wished that I had my car and drove to the campus, parked, went to class and practice and then drive home. But of course, I have to rely on the subway for my commute to school and back. The $104 that I pay for a monthly Metro card can be spent else were for better money. I’ve bought three metro cards since moving into the city and I can rent an apartment for all of the money that get to New York City transportation.

My name is Sheridan Taylor and I am a freshman here at Baruch. I am from Westchester County, New York. I attended my four years of high school at Peekskill High School. I played Softball, Volleyball and Basketball and helped to lead my girls’ basketball team to their first state championship. I’m majoring in International Business and minoring in Political Science.
My top concern with Baruch is the fact that there aren’t many computers for use in use in the library and the vertical campus. It has been hard to carry around my laptop every day for the simple that there might not be any open computers for use. I think there should an open room filled with nothing, but computers. Another concern that I have is the Wi-Fi connection inside of the 23 Street building. I would want to expect that there would be Wi-Fi in the building, but there aren’t any inside of the classroom. If there were Wi-Fi in the classrooms I would be able to read along with my assignment on the computer instead of continuously printing out the page for class. My last concern with the school is the pricing of books when you’re selling them back to the school. I want to know if we’re going to get face value for the book or are they going to buy it back the by how many copies that they have.
The Baruch experience is so much better than my high school experience. I enjoyed high school, but I enjoy the fact that I’m going to a competitive school and a nationally ranked one at that. My high school had about 850 students and I felt like that I knew everyone in the school and that there weren’t as many opportunities to succeed because of all the financial cuts that my school had. Here at Baruch I have more opportunities to succeed in what I want to do. I can internship with a major company in New York, join the different clubs or have a paid work-study job.
My fist year has already changed me and it barely started. I had to change my studying habits and my timeliness. In high school, I didn’t study as much as I should have and it sometimes showed in the work and the tests that I had to turn in. I had to make sure that I gave myself enough time to complete the homework assignments that are given to me. I learned to manage my time even better than high school. I didn’t have much problem when it came to time management in high school because I played three varsity sports and was active in several clubs. In college I have to know when the right times are to study and when it’s nice to go out and enjoy the college experience.